I’ll be giving two talks this week. One of them will be a joint talk
with the incomparable Scott Hanselman. Usually
that means him taking potshots at me for your enjoyment. ARE YOU NOT
ENTERTAINED?!

You will be!

Jazz Up Your Open Source with GitHub

Wednesday April 10 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM - Room 5 (Just Me)

You write some code that handles angle brackets like nobody’s business
and you’re ready to share it with the world on GitHub. Great! Now
what?

The story doesn’t end there. When the first users and contributors
show up at your doorstep, you need to be prepared. Find out some tips
for engaging an audience with your open source project and really make
your project sing.

Return of the HaaHa Show: How to Open Source

They are back. ScottHa and PhilHaa reprise their legendary (OK, not
really) HaaHa show that has thrilled audiences on three continents.
There will be code. There will be jokes, bad ones. There will be Pull
Requests. There will be Markdown. Will there be injuries? Papercuts?
Let’s find out as we join Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman as they learn
how to open source. We will answer questions like: How do I get
involved in open source? How do I clone and repro, branch it, do a
pull request and commit to an open source project? Seems kind of hard.
Let’s see if it is!

The call for proposals for this
conference is still open. If you know anyone who might bring a diverse
and unique perspective to this conference, please encourage them to
submit. We’d really love to get a more diverse speaker cast than is
typical for a conference on .NET open source. This conference is no
longer just a conference on Mono. Mono figures prominently, but the
scope has expanded to the broader topic of .NET open source and cross
platform .NET.

Others

I’ll be in Tokyo Japan in late April. So if you have a user group there
that meets on Tuesday 4/30 and want to hear about GitHub, Git, NuGet, or
even ASP.NET MVC, let me know. I’d be happy to swing by, but be warned I
do not speak Japanese.

There might also be some local upcoming conferences I’ll speak at.

Podcasts

I recently was a guest on Yet Another Podcast with Jesse
Liberty
where I talked about Git, GitHub, GitHub for Windows, and subverting the
oppressive traditional hierarchical organizational structure that serves
to keep us down. FIGHT THE POWER!